Is There Life After Death? An Interview with Deepak Chopra

Is There Life After Death?An Interview with Deepak Chopra

Is There Life After Death?An Interview with Deepak Chopra

He was the recipient in 2009 of the Oceana Award. Also in 2009, Chopra established the Chopra Foundation with a mission to advance the cause of mind/body spiritual healing, education, and research through fundraising for selected projects.

In 2010 the Chopra Foundation sponsored the first Sages and Scientists Symposium with prominent scientists philosophers and artists from around the world.

Deepak Chopra is an Indian American public
speaker, and writer on Ayurveda, spirituality and mind-body medicine.

Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his
focus to alternative medicine.

Chopra was a top assistant to
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before launching his own career in the late 1980s
by publishing self-help books on New Age spirituality and alternative
medicine.

A friend of Michael Jackson for 20 years, Chopra
came to widespread public attention in July 2009 when he criticized the
"cult of drug-pushing doctors, with their co-dependent relationships
with addicted celebrities," saying he hoped Jackson's death, attributed
to an overdose of a prescription drug, would be a call to action.

As
a young man, Chopra's desire was to become an actor or journalist but
he reports that he was inspired by a character in Arrowsmith by Sinclair
Lewis and became a doctor.

Chopra completed his primary education at
St. Columba's School in New Delhi and graduated from the All India
Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).

After immigrating to the
US in 1968, Chopra began his clinical internship and residency training
at Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield, New Jersey. He had residency terms
at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts, and at the University
of Virginia Hospital.

He earned his license to practice medicine
in the state of Massachusetts in 1973 and received a California medical
license in 2004. Chopra is board-certified in internal medicine and
specialized in endocrinology.

He is also a member of the American
Medical Association (AMA), a Fellow of the American College of
Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical
Endocrinologists.

According to Business Week one of Chopra's main messages is that by ridding oneself of negative emotions and developing intuition by listening to signals from the body, health can be improved. According to Chopra, slowing down or reversing the aging of the mind through his methods can increase one's lifespan up to the age of 120 years.

As a result of his writings and lectures in this area, he is thought by some to be "one of the pre-eminent leaders of the mind-body-spirit movement". In India death is perceived very differently than in the West, "as a
brief stopping point on an endless soul journey," says Chopra in this
introduction to life beyond bodily existence.

Deepak Chopra: The Mystery of Consciousness

Deepak Chopra's Lecture on The Mystery of Consciousness. This is Deepak's opening lecture to his Seduction of Spirit retreat.

One of the Chopra Center programs where in 5 days participants learn the secrets of meditation, unlock the stillness that rests within your soul, and connect to their inner essence. Deepak's new book is called The Ultimate Happiness Prescription.

Chopra, a medical doctor
and world leader in mind-body medicine as well as author of more than 45
books, now ventures to answer: what happens after we die?
For Chopra,
death deserves to be called miraculous, a "doorway to a far more
important event—the beginning of the afterlife" and a mode of being that
"can be as creative as living."
Chopra effectively uses the classic
Vedanta story of Savitri—a woman who comes home to find death, Lord
Yama, waiting to take her husband, and who seeks the monk Ramana's
advice to outwit death—to frame each chapter.
Chopra grounds each topic
in the long arc of this singular story, which is the perfect springboard
for Chopra to introduce concepts such as Akasha (the highest stage a
soul can attain) and Eternity within the Indian tradition (where we are
beyond death, life, maleness, femaleness, and the experience of time).
Chopra presents a fascinating account of life after death for Westerners
that will certainly please his avid fans and draw in new readers as
well.